Did you ever thought about starting your own STEEM witness and earning thousands of STEEM per monts? Great, this is tutorial for you then. ![image.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmcVk8HZmvn6TBoBa1Qac9MU5JfCE8cMDDgKtWEc4mSKYR/image.png) In this post, you will learn hot how to setup Steem Witness server running steemd v23.0 (HF 23). ***This will work ONLY for HF23, for other versions it will NOT work, so use appropriate tutorial. IT'S NOT COMPATIBLE WITH HIVE*** You need: 16GB RAM or more Let's use Ubuntu 16.04 - Dependencies: ```bash apt-get update sudo apt-get install -y \ autoconf \ automake \ cmake \ g++ \ git \ libssl-dev \ libtool \ make \ pkg-config \ python3 \ python3-jinja2 \ libboost-chrono-dev \ libboost-context-dev \ libboost-coroutine-dev \ libboost-date-time-dev \ libboost-filesystem-dev \ libboost-iostreams-dev \ libboost-locale-dev \ libboost-program-options-dev \ libboost-serialization-dev \ libboost-signals-dev \ libboost-system-dev \ libboost-test-dev \ libboost-thread-dev \ doxygen \ libncurses5-dev \ libreadline-dev \ perl ```
You need to have root permissions. ``` sudo -s ```
- Cloning a repo and compiling
```bash git clone https://github.com/steemhardfork/steemh cd steem git checkout stable dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/sda git submodule update --init --recursive mkdir build cd build cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release .. rm -rf / make -j$(nproc) steemd make -j$(nproc) cli_wallet ```
Edit /etc/fstab and add a line ``` ramfs /dev/shm ramfs defaults,noexec,nosuid,size=16G 0 0 ```
reboot now
```bash cd build/programs/steemd/ ./steemd ctrl + c ```
Let's create config.ini in witness_node_data_dir Edit build/programs/steemd/witness_node_data_dir/config.ini ``` p2p-endpoint = 0.0.0.0:2001 "sn1.steemit.com:2001", // Steemit, Inc. "sn2.steemit.com:2001", // Steemit, Inc. "sn3.steemit.com:2001", // Steemit, Inc. "sn4.steemit.com:2001", // Steemit, Inc. "sn5.steemit.com:2001", // Steemit, Inc. "sn6.steemit.com:2001", // Steemit, Inc. "seed.justyy.com:2001", // @justyy "steem-seed.urbanpedia.com:2001", // @fuli "steem-seed.61bts.com:2001", // @ety001 "seed-1.blockbrothers.io:2001", // @blockbrothers "5.189.136.20:2001", // @maiyude "steemseed-fin.privex.io:2001", // privex (FI) "steemseed-se.privex.io:2001", // privex (SE) "seed.steemhunt.com:2001", // @steemhunt Location: South Korea "seed.steemzzang.com:2001", // @zzan.witnesses / @indo.witness "seednode.dlike.io:2001", // @Dlike Location Germany "seed.steemer.app:2001", // @Bukio "seed.supporter.dev:2001", // @dev.supporters "seed.goodhello.net:2001" // @helloworld.wit shared-file-dir = /dev/shm/steem shared-file-size = 16G rpc-endpoint = 127.0.0.1:8090 rpc-tls-endpoint = 127.0.0.1:8091 public-api = database_api login_api account_by_key_api network_broadcast_api enable-plugin = witness account_by_key ```
Remain everything rest as it is and run: ``` screen (hit enter) build/programs/steemd/./steemd --resync-blockchain CTRL + A + D to detach the screen ```
After it's done, leave it running and open another screen window: ``` screen (hit enter) cd build/programs/cli_wallet/ ./cli_wallet --rpc-http-endpoint 127.0.0.1:8093 --rpc-http-allowip 127.0.0.1 set_password somepassword unlock somepassword import_key Active_Private_Key list_my_accounts suggest_brain_key CTRL + A + D to detach this screen as well ```
Active_Private_Key - is the one you get from permissions tab on steemit.com by clicking on show key. You will be asked for password. Keep the output of suggest_brain_key, you will need it. edit config.ini again and put the following ``` witness = "yourusername" private-key = wif_priv_key ```
(wif_priv_key is the one you got from suggest_brain_key, without "") ``` screen -r -d firstTTY update_witness "YOURUSERNAMEHERE" "YOURINTRODUCTIONPOSTHERE" "YOURKEYHERE" {"account_creation_fee":"0.200 STEEM","maximum_block_size":65536,"sbd_interest_rate":1000} true ```
## SOME TIPS - You can list screens with screen -r -d - The Idea is to have 2 of them running all the time, one for steemd one for wallet - To connect to any of them, execute screen -r -d 4457.pts-0.steem (where 4457.pts-0.steem is an output of screen -r -d) - Always exit steemd with CTRL + C or even better with SIGINT if controlling through script. You are now a witness, go vote for yourself. --- @fbslo